Soldiers of the 226th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade from Mobile are continuing the tradition of helping with the school located near their compound in Afghanistan. (Contributed Photo/Sgt. 1st Class Jamie Brown, 131st MPAD)

Valentine's Day will be extra sweet for more than 190 Alabama
National Guard soldiers and their families.

Soldiers of the 226th Maneuver Enhancement
Brigade out of Mobile will be arriving home tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Fort
Whiting Alabama National Guard Armory.

The soldiers have been deployed since April 2013 as part of
Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit mobilized at Fort Hood, Texas for additional
training before departing for duty in Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan, the
soldiers provided base management operations for five base camps in Kabul, police
advisory training for police districts of Kabul, quick reactionary force
Soldiers for all of Kabul and also worked on projects that provided capital
improvements to Kabul.

The unit was mobilized to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in
2003 and again in 2006.